The Boston Review called Vanessa Place ‘the spokesperson for the new cynical avant-garde,’ the Huffington Post characterized her work as ‘ethically odious.’ A leading practitioner of conceptual writing, Vanessa Place was the first poet to perform as part of the Whitney Biennial; a content advisory was posted. Place is also a conceptual artist, a critic, a criminal defence attorney, and CEO of VanessaPlace Inc, the world’s first poetry corporation. Place lectures and performs internationally. [www.vanessaplace.biz]